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Re:United States vs. Google by nmfisher on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @10:30PM (#24854353)
Out of curiosity, what's the justification for opposing a preferential voting system in the USA? Is it simply a case of "it would hurt my guy's chance of winning"? Or is there more principled reasoning at play?

As an Australian, it makes perfect sense to me.

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Re:United States vs. Google by munk-a on Thursday October 22, 2020 @01:45PM (#24860843)
There are two points

1. It's held up that it would disenfrancbise voters

2. Tradition (essentially) something being unconstitutional in the US has morphed into an extremely radical idea in the minds of most Americans - the electoral college is established in the constitution, but the US has revised that a bunch of times over it's history including the "undo" amendment (the 21st)

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